We are using data binding in our application, and are having trouble
finding out how to bind a hierarchy of lists of business objects.
What we have is this hierarchy:
List<Orders>

While developing a Windows forms application I encountered what I
consider to be a bug or a design flaw:
Consider to have 3 Forms namely A B and C. B is owned by A and C is
owned by B. If we close A, all three forms should close which is exactly

(Using Visual Studio 2005 and C#)
I'm trying to set up an event handler for trapping activity involving
an input text element of a web page. I've tried using onclick, onenter,
onactivate (see code snippet below), etc handlers but while they seem

Hi, looking for a few pointers about dialogs forms. I would like to
have add new functionality in an app I am writing, so the user could
add a number of different items, reports, questions etc, is there an
easy way to create dialogs like the VS IDE Add Item and Add Project

I have a TabStipControl...
How do I do to hide some tabpage programmaticaly ?
tnx

I have some data that I want to save inside my .exe instead of
delivering it as separate files. When I was using MFC, I would create a
custom resource in my .RC file, then use FindResource and LoadResource.
What is the equivolent in .NET, or is there another way to achieve my

I am playing with overriding the ControlDesigner OnMouseDragMove.  But for
some reason it only appears to get called when a control just begins its
drag.  I was anticipating it to be called for every movement of the mouse
during the drag.  Am I missing something so that this ...

Just out of curiosity....
Looking into Application.designer.vb as part of MyProject i see
Partial Friend Class MyApplication
<Global.System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()> _

I programmatically moved the MdiClient of my MDI form to be nested
inside a Panel so I can control the layout better.  I also removed the
3D border on the MdiClient using Interop.
When trying to open MDI child forms, I first received an error about

VS 2005 w/SP1 / XP Pro w/all service packs
One of our forms has a Tab-control onto which is dynamically added a
number of other controls. When the added controls are ComboBoxes or
CheckListBoxes, their OnClick event is fired before their OnEnter. For

I have a form that displays a list of bitmaps.  I have read the MSDN docs
regarding drag-n-drop operations, and have reviewed some examples online on
how to do this, but the examples I have seen thus far only show how to
create an internet shortcut file.

I'd like to add help functionality to my application.  I like how the
integrated help displays in Visual Studio, and would like to simulate
this in my own application.
What technologies / components would I need to look at to get this

I'm experiencing performance problems when adding a large set of
bitmaps to an ImageList. The bitmaps are 55x55 pixels in size, which
matches the ImageList's ImageSize property. Adding approx. 5000 bitmaps
takes about 1,5 minutes. The bitmaps are generated from scratch,

It used to be simple in Basic to "open" a printer (like LPT1), then "write" ASCII characters to it. Alternatively, one could create a text-file, then a simple DOS copy operation could copy the text file to a printer using shell. There is no documentation to indicate how this ...

I'm looking for a safe and maintainable way to store connection string info
(connecting to SQL Server 2005 from .NET 2.0 Windows Forms client app);
things like server name or IP address and database name. I need to provide
the client application with this info for connecting to ...